Creative New Zealand
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Creative New Zealand (also known as Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, previously the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council [1]) is the arts funding arm of the New Zealand Government. Its finances consists of approximately 50% central government funding and the remaining amount from the Lotteries Commission.
Funding is available for individuals, community groups and arts organisations. Creative New Zealand funds most art forms including theatre, film, music, writers and festivals.
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[edit] Maori Arts
Creative New Zealand supports Māori Arts through the Māori: Te Waka Toi Board which provides funding for Maori artists and organisations such as Toi Māori Aotearoa which has a Māori Arts specific focus.
[edit] Pacific Arts
A Pacific Arts Committee provides funding for Pacific Islander artists, community groups and arts organisations. The committee also funds the annual Pacific Arts Awards, including the Iosefa Enari Memorial Award and arts residencies in Samoa and the Cook Islands. It has also funded festivals such as Pasifika, a free annual event of Polynesian arts, crafts and performances in Auckland. The committee also supports a contingent of Pacific Island artists from New Zealand to attend the Festival of Pacific Arts held every four years. Other events funded include art exhibitions run by Tautai, an organisation of contemporary visual artists such as Fatu Feu'u, painter and sculptor Johnny Penisula, multi-media artist Shigeyuki Kihara and printmaker, painter and sculptor Michel Tuffery.
[edit] Arts & Culture
The Culture of New Zealand is unique, drawing on centuries of its Tangata Whenua (indigenous peoples and culture) traditions and art forms, imported Pākehā or European NZ styles as well as the relatively new multicultural influences of various diaspora now located within New Zealand. Creative New Zealand aims to promote this uniqueness by encouraging new works, as well as allowing New Zealanders to see the best of world performances in New Zealand.
[edit] Arts Organisations
Amongst the grants issued by Creative New Zealand are grants to the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the New Zealand Opera. Other grants go to theatres, such as Bats Theatre, and for putting on performances of New Zealand and other works. Creative New Zealand is also a core funder of Playmarket the national organisation for New Zealand plays and playwrights.
[edit] Creative Communities Scheme
Another scheme of Creative New Zealand is the Creative Communities New Zealand Fund. There are several CCNZ Funding Co-ordinators who sit within local councils and receive biannual grants which are to be directed to local arts projects.
[edit] Film
The Independent Filmmakers' Fund supports established and emerging fimmakers.
[edit] Arts Residencies
Creative New Zealand also funds numerous arts residencies for different art forms.
Funding for television is through New Zealand On Air.
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[edit] External links
- Creative New Zealand
- Toi Maori Aotearoa
- APEC virtual Arts page - Maori Art
- Creative Communities New Zealand, Manukau City
- NZ on Air
- Playmarket website
- The Big Idea, NZ creative communities website
- Pasifika Festival
- Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts
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